This machine was last overhauled in February 1955, and last turned out Crepe silk, probably dress material.
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A typical lab at the Research Center.
On the top floor of the former casket building is the finishing line for the coating section; on this section the final spray of plastic would hit the wood before a small furnace would seal the plastic permanently to the surface, making it more resilient, I assume.
In one of the small offices there’s this machine that bills itself as “The Recorder.” I’m an old tech geek and I still don’t know what this really does.
Only two machines sit on the rails in the roundhouse, both oil cars. It’s not clear whether there’s anything inside either, but they have to have been placed here before 1970, when the turntable outside these numbered doors was removed.
It was as noisy then as it is colorful now…
This is the building with the water tower on top, full of Barcol stuff that did not sell at auction and not worth the trouble to scrap.
A stack of tires, some of which are destined for the roof. For some reason, a hundred old tires adorn the roof of the Twohy.
Point me to the blast furnace.
A sign of where man met machine.